The Boonville boys ninth grade basketball team fell in the consolation finals against Bowling Green Saturday in the Mexico Tournament 56-26. The Pirates, dropping to 1-3 on the season, trailed Bowling Green 9-7 after one, 27-14 at the half and 44-22 after three.
The Pilot Grove boys basketball team put up what head coach Derek Skaggs called one heck of a fight Thursday night in a 76-63 loss against Sedalia Sacred Heart in the Pilot Grove Tiger Classic. In other games Thursday night in the tournament, the Prairie Home boys defeated Tuscumbia 64-27 while the Leeton boys beat Sturgeon 77-42.
Up until Friday night’s game against the Sturgeon Bulldogs in the championship in the Pilot Grove Tiger Classic, the Pilot Grove girls basketball team had been perfect on the season in three games. You can make that four in a row now after leading Sturgeon from start to finish for a convincing 58-33 victory.
The LSE Pirates wrestling team closed out the 2021 season Saturday in the Carrollton Tournament against a field of 11 teams. LSE Pirates wrestling coach Christian Stock said the team finished out the season really well.
Boonville's Zoe Davis, Addi Brownfield and Abby Fuemmeler were selected to the Centralia's All-Tournament Team for their play during the week. The Lady Pirates finished 3-0 in the tournament by beating Macon 58-49 for the championship on Friday. CHRIS BOWIE
The LSE boys seventh grade basketball team finished third in the California Tournament on Saturday by beating Russellville 41-17. The Pirates, 8-3 on the season, outscored Russellville 23-2 in the firsttwo quarters and then held a 18-15 advantage in the second half.
The Boonville Pirates wrestling team recorded wins in six of the 10 matches for a 42-35 win over the Warrensburg Tigers Thursday night in Warrensburg. The Pirates, 2-2 overall, recorded wins by fall in three of the six wins and had two other wins by major decision.
The LSE girls eighth grade basketball team captured the championship in the 39th annual LSE/Ss. Peter & Paul Tournament by beating the hometown Lady Warriors of Ss.
Many Missouri residents living along the proposed “Grain Belt Express” merchant transmission line by Invenergy were surprised to read the blatant misrepresentation of the project in the recent op-ed “The way of the American genius continues to build with the Grain Belt Express” appearing in these pages on Dec. 3. The real shame is the paper wasted ink on this exercise in self-aggrandizement, when the same outdated talking points used by the author can be viewed by anyone directly on Invenergy’s website. We have all seen this song and dance before.
I begin this column with a confession. We journalists are reluctant to report about ourselves because under journalism ethics, a reporter should avoid covering something in which the reporter has a conflict of interest.